Upper East Texas News

Titus County schools enrolled 510 students who were identified as being gifted and talented during the 2020-2021 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency.

This is a 4.7% increase over the previous school year.

Of the 6,998 students enrolled in Titus County schools, 7.3% of them were considered to be gifted and talented.

Titus County enrolled the 78th highest number of gifted and talented students among Texas counties.

Texas is found to be one of the least-educated states in the U.S. A study from WalletHub ranked Texas 41st out of 50 states in terms of the quality of the educational system and how successful students were.

More than 5.4 million students are enrolled in public schools across Texas. Nearly one million of them live in rural areas where options for local public schools are few and far between.

School	Number of gifted and talented students	Total Number of students
Annie Sims Elementary School	23	494
Chapel Hill Elementary School	27	412
Chapel Hill High School	28	329
Chapel Hill Junior High School	21	251
Child Development Center	0	466
E. C. Brice Elementary School	25	430
Frances Corprew Elementary School	12	399
Harts Bluff Early College High School	2	44
Harts Bluff Elementary School	16	656
Mount Pleasant DAEP	0	8
Mount Pleasant High School	127	1,570
Mount Pleasant Junior High School	96	780
P. E. Wallace Middle School	102	761
Vivian Fowler Elementary School	31	398